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Alan Perlis Quotes

American - Scientist | April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Language Attention Programming Low

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Good Ideas You Responsible Willing

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

Two Every Which Program Another

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

You Him Head Up Your Explaining

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

You Missed Some Procedure Parameters

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Computers English Japan Your Made

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Frustration Computers Living Obvious

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Programming English Would Word Our

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Meant To Be Bubble Possible See Soap

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Change Vice Fit Easier Than Program

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Understand Write Easier Than Correct

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Value Know Nothing Everything Cost

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